TIME… Feb 13, 2008

Isn’t it interesting how much we are preoccupied with time? We live our lives to its beat, our languages are filled with terms indicating some reaction, relation, or expression of it, and we always seem to be trying to make new ways to harness it, measure it, or get more out of it. Like it were a thing, one we could really control or affect in any way, instead of an abstract, perpetual, ongoing, all-encompassing phenomena with all the cogent awareness of a rock, utterly unaware of and unconcerned with anything in the Universe around it. At all.

Philosophers call it “the breath of God”. That colours the Mind: if God hiccoughed, would Galaxies disappear? If He sneezed, would the Universe be destroyed as matter itself was disintegrated in paroxysms of nuclear oscillations?

Time is a force, a condition within which the universe operates. Time has an effect on all matter, for all creation changes over time, but there is no apparent reciprocal action, for nothing found in the natural Universe seems to affect time, except the conditions of radical and illogical environment offered by the Singularity. It is just a universal law, a condition with which everything other than time must cope. Like all natural laws of the Universe, it may be stretched, sped up, slowed down, warped, locally distorted, disturbed, and predicted. However, it cannot be fully stopped, and especially not reversed: to do so could lead to severe and reprehensible paradox. Not even the mighty Singularity can accomplish this, no matter the strength of it. No matter how close to zero advancement it may reach, it will never reach zero. To do so would be catastrophic.